Featured Performers
Program
BEETHOVEN: 6 Variations in F major, Op. 34
CZERNY: Variations on a Theme by Rode, Op. 33 “La Ricordanza”
LISZT: “Ricordanza,” from Transcendental Etudes
RACHMANINOFF (arr. A. Siloti): “Vocalise”
RACHMANINOFF: Prelude Op. 32 No. 13
- BACH (trans. Rachmaninoff): Gavotte, from Partita for Solo Violin No. 3
- BACH (trans. M. Hess): “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”
- DE LARROCHA: Sonata antigua
- DE LARROCHA: Cajita de música
- LANDOWSKA: Feu follet
- LANDOWSKA: Valse
- NIKOLAYEVA: Elegy
- GIESEKING: 3 Dance Improvisations
- WILD: Reminiscences of Snow White
A meditation on memory and transformation, this program traces how melodies evolve across time, memory, and imagination. Silver Medalist at both the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (2009) and the International Tchaikovsky Competition (2011), Yeol Eum Son brings virtuosity and poetic insight to a wide-ranging program spanning works by Beethoven, Czerny, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff.
Works by pioneering women pianists and composers—De Larrocha, Landowska, and Nikolayeva—offer distinct interpretive worlds, re-centering the piano tradition through their artistry and interpretive vision, before Earl Wild’s virtuosic Reminiscences of Snow White closes the evening in dazzling, virtuoso spectacle.
Sponsors
Featured Artist Sponsor: Jim Carter
Additional support from The Segerstrom Foundation
